Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will visit Kyiv on Tuesday, three people with knowledge of the situation told the FT, marking the first time since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that the EU’s most pro-Russian leader has visited the war-torn country.
Orbán, the EU and Nato’s most prominent critic of ongoing military aid to Kyiv, and one of the few western leaders to have met Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 2022 invasion, will visit a day after his country assumed the rotating presidency of the EU council.
Orbán will meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other senior officials just days after the two spoke at an EU summit in Brussels. They shared a private conversation before the Ukrainian urged all EU leaders to step up their military support to Kyiv.